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How Can there be an Indian Lincoln, Mr Udit Raj?MainstreamIf the Indian nationalist movement was a mini-revolution, the present politics being unfolded by Hindu nationalism is a counter-revolution, duly supported by the likes of Udit Raj. And lastly, if one concedes that there has been no Lincoln in India ...

A rare voice of sanityThe HinduGuha suggests that the problem could lie here: “Hindu conservatism tends to be revivalist, harking back to a pure past uncontaminated by foreign influences or alien faiths. Meanwhile, Hindu nationalism tends to be triumphalist, seeking to make other ...

Why Indian Minorities Support Uprising in Kashmir?The World Beast (blog)Notably, since the leader of the ruling party BJP Narendra Modi became Prime Minister of India, various developments like unprecedented rise of Hindu extremism, persecution of minorities even of lower cast-Hindus, forced conversions of other religious ...

The Rajasingam Legacy: A Quest for QualityThe Island.lk (subscription)After nightfall on 21st September 1989, Rajasingam Master called on his bicycle at my mother's home quite unexpectedly and delivered his pithy message, "Rajini has been shot." His voice showed no evident emotion. After a brief exchange of words, ...

The Kathmandu PostThe lost decadesThe Kathmandu Post... Bhupi avertly challenges a monolithic sense of national identity and pride (read centralised Pahade Hindu nationalism) evangelised particularly by king Mahendra after he wrestled away a hard-fought democracy to institute absolute rule once again in ...

Al-ArabiyaGrowing 'culture of intolerance' in IndiaAl-ArabiyaPen International said a survey of authors, lawyers, activists and journalists this year found that this “culture of intolerance has taken root in India and has grown more menacing”. Defamation, sedition and those laws pertaining to hate speech were ...

KHALISTAN IS A DEAD HORSE???LankawebThe Hindu extremists not only desecrated their holy books but also threatened to demolish their Gurdawaras. At different stages they were treated like slaves. The Hindu extremists deprived them even of their basic rights. In short the democratic and ...

The Hindu'Sharif's silence an admission of guilt'The HinduThe Congress on Thursday attacked Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's speech to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA), seeing his silence on the Uri terror attack as a conspiratorial omission. “In his jarring and impudent address to the UNGA yesterday, ...

IFEXIntolerance in the time of ModiIFEXThe report is an update to PEN's 2015 report, Imposing Silence: The Use of India's Laws to Suppress Free Speech, which detailed ways in which intolerant individuals and groups have used vaguely worded laws and a cumbersome legal system to silence ...

The Hindu'Sharif's silence an admission of guilt'The HinduThe Congress on Thursday attacked Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's speech to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA), seeing his silence on the Uri terror attack as a conspiratorial omission. “In his jarring and impudent address to the UNGA yesterday, ...